Diode-pumped Nd:BaY2F8 picosecond laser mode-locked with carbon nanotube saturable absorbers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2739-2742

  Agnesi, Antonio ^a   Carrà, Luca ^a   Pirzio, Federico ^a   Reali, Giancarlo ^a   Toncelli, Alessandra ^b   Tonelli, Mauro ^b   Young Choi, Sun ^c   Rotermund, Fabian ^c   Griebner, Uwe ^d   Petrov, Valentin ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c Ajou University   (South Korea)

^d MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER MODES; LASER RESONATORS; MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; NEODYMIUM; PULSE GENERATORS; PUMPING (LASER); PUMPS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ABSORBED PUMP POWER; DIODE-PUMPED; MODE-LOCKED; MODELOCKING; MW OUTPUT; NARROW BANDS; ND-DOPED; PICO-SECOND PULSE; PICOSECOND LASER; PICOSECOND REGIME; SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 78649929416     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.27.002739     Document Type: Article

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